{"id":352774,"date":"2026-03-22T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/352774\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:10:08","slug":"watch-wet-leg-perform-on-snl-uk-series-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/352774\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Wet Leg Perform on SNL UK Series Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/wet-leg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wet Leg<\/a> served as the musical guest on the inaugural episode of Saturday Night Live UK on March 21. The British indie-rock band played \u201cMangetout\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/wet-leg-catch-these-fists\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Catch These Fists<\/a>\u201d alongside host Tina Fey. Check out videos of both performances below.<\/p>\n<p>The new series, which airs on Sky TV in the UK, is set to premiere on Peacock this evening. Jamie Dornan and Riz Ahmed will host the next two episodes, alongside musical guests <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/32987-wolf-alice\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolf Alice<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/2377-kasabian\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kasabian<\/a>. The series\u2019 debut cast consists of Animashaun, Ayoade Bamgboye, Larry Dean, Celeste Dring, Fouracres, Ania Magliano, Annabel Marlow, Al Nash, Jack Shep, Emma Sidi, and Paddy Young.<\/p>\n<p>The original Saturday Night Live, which is in its 51st season, is currently on hiatus\u2014the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/jack-white-jack-black-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">next episode<\/a>, set for April 4, will feature Jack Black as host and Jack White as musical guest. Other musical guests this season have included <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-harry-styles-bring-dance-no-more-and-coming-up-roses-to-snl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Styles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/ahttps:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-gorillaz-make-their-saturday-night-live-debut\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gorillaz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-geese-perform-au-pays-du-cocaine-and-trinidad-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geese<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-asap-rocky-perform-dont-be-dumb-songs-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A$AP Rocky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wet Leg released their most recent album, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/wet-leg-moisturizer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moisturizer<\/a>, in 2025; it followed their 2022 self-titled <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/wet-leg-wet-leg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debut<\/a>. Moisturizer was nominated for three awards at the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/topics\/grammys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Grammys<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/grammys-2026-tyler-the-creator-the-cure-and-more-nominated-for-best-alternative-music-awards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Best Alternative Music Album<\/a> and Best Alternative Music Performance.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Moisturizer at No. 36 in <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/lists-and-guides\/best-albums-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 50 Best Albums of 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wet Leg served as the musical guest on the inaugural episode of Saturday Night Live UK on March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411,2059],"class_list":["post-352774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}